Sean Atkinson Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Screen9 was founded within Picsearch and serves terabytes of video streaming per month with advanced content management, customized video players and rich API features. Screen9 clients include high profile Swedish and international brands in several markets including media, retail and real estate.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Picsearch delivers multimedia search services with hundreds of millions of requests per month from an index of over 3 billion images to numerous clients, including leading Internet portals around the world.As Chief Technical Officer in my fifth year on the management team I report to the CEO of Picsearch and Screen9, managing a team of 12 technical staff including web, flash and back-end developers with an annual department budget of roughly $500k. Primary responsibilities include recruiting all technical staff and negotiating salaries, managing projects with demanding deadlines, reporting regularly to company boards as well as scheduling resources between the product roadmap, external customer deliveries and internal technical projects. In addition I hold regular professional reviews, outsource and manage remote technical consultants, handle technical contact with clients, specify new hardware purchases, coordinate with IT suppliers and am responsible for on-call emergency responses.Prior to CTO, I initially joined as a software developer and coded production image search services with high-availability uptime requirements as well as back-end distributed systems using hundreds of computing cores and many terabytes of storage. Responsibilities also included development of a website handling many millions of visits per month in addition to administration of Linux server clusters including web content, email, large-scale storage and computing nodes. I created the initial Online Video Platform (OVP) from scratch, defined and implemented the public API, transcoded videos, deployed distributed databases, wrote technical internal and external documentation plus extended new features.

Netproject was a UK based software consultancy specializing in open source solutions, primarily for UK public sector clients including the Police IT Organisation. For over 3 years I led the design and development of a grant sponsored "Secure Open Desktop Architecture" project (SODA), both in the UK and working remotely from Sweden. SODA targeted fast, low cost and simple installation and management of corporate Linux desktops. I developed a minimal boot CD, automatic and encrypted installation of distributions over a network, central management interface for client authentication and automation, automatic hardware inventory, single sign-on with smart cards and desktop session roaming. As part of my role I integrated and extended many existing components, developed hardware drivers, automation software and management tools, co-ordinated with other developers, contributed improvements to open source projects and visited clients for presentations and on-site support.In addition to Netproject, I developed for other projects including the group-ware client Evolution.

AT&T Laboratories was a commercial research group focussing on innovative hardware and software projects, several of which were spun out to become successful startup companies. I joined the Broadband Phone project, developing voice over IP software and graphical C++ applications providing an intuitive interface on a touch-screen, including distributed voicemail server and client, graphical messaging and a SIP parsing library. I modified the Linux kernel running on a thin-client embedded phone device to sample high quality audio and deliver it live across the network to multiple clients, and also encoded and segmented MPEG audio streams to a file-server in real time.

Catalist was an independent company specialising in Geographic Information Systems supplying frequently updated data to clients in the petrol retail industry. I led software development with responsibility for all technical operations, integrating new software products with database and mapping software as well as administering IT systems. Before university I worked full-time and later continued part-time during term holidays.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Electrical And Information Sciences Tripos

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